Empowering Parents for a Brighter Future
Reconnect with your family through our supportive programs.
About MPI Services
Our Mission
Our Mission is to foster increased recognition of the importance of responsible fatherhood in the lives of children, youth and families in the U.S. Virgin Islands. We endeavor to help fathers reconnect with their children and develop essential parenting skills through classes, workshops, support groups, special events and provide a supportive environment where fathers can feel safe to share their concerns and learn from one another.
Our vision
Our vision is a Virgin Islands society that supports family life and that all children will grow with the opportunity to develop healthy relationship with a committed father.
What We Do:
The Mission Project is a unique nonprofit agency; that for the past 13-years have been empowering hundreds of fathers and mothers who have previously been absent from their families’ lives or are currently involved but feel they could use additional resources to help them reconnect. We offer programs that empower fathers and mothers to addresses their struggles and insecurities head-on, and inspires in them the confidence and care to participate in their children’s life.
The Mission Project offers Responsible Fatherhood and Motherhood support programs that helps fathers and mothers reconnect with their children and families and equip them with the essential parenting skills through classes, workshops, and support groups. The Mission Project offers case management services to all the programs that we conduct that are designed to help our clients understand their options concerning their specific situation. We focus on their mental health, substance abuse, employment, emotional, and psychosocial status when working with each individual client.
Workforce Development and Self Sufficiency Empowerment Program-(WISE)
Men and Women who are unemployed are confronted with serious challenges in fulfilling their role of a “provider.” Our Economic Stability Program(WISE) offer programs to foster economic stability by providing workforce development services such as;
- Coordinating employment services such as referrals to local employment offices
- Coordinating career and vocational training opportunities
- Providing employability skills training and support.
- Employment readiness and soft skills training,
- Job retention coaching
24/7 DAD PROGRAM
This evidence-based curriculum is designed to equip fathers with the self-awareness, compassion, and sense of responsibility that every good parent needs. to improve the knowledge, behavior, and skills of dads of all races, religions, and demographics. The program is built on the basis that fathers can be nurturers, allowing men to look at themselves and examine their own fatherhood history.
MOTHERS MATTER PROGRAM
This program addresses one of the most vital factors that affects fathers’ involvement in the lives of their children: maternal gate-keeping and its effect on the quality of the relationships between mothers and fathers, while also increasing mothers’ pro-relationship knowledge, self-efficacy, and attitudes about their relationships with the fathers
their children.
MTIPV -MEN TERMINATING INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
Making existing relationships healthier is a critical goal for The Mission Project. MTIPV Program is an evidence-based Domestic Violence curriculum that have the potential to reduce marital conflict, domestic violence and enhance relationship quality, all of which would lead to improvements in outcomes for children and families. The interest in and need for promoting healthy relationships is clear, and the co-parenting relationship represents a critical locus for the development of relationship skills. The quality of both parents’ relationship influences a fathers’ ability to parent effectively. Research demonstrates that unharmonious and antagonistic co-parenting relationships consistently relate to poorer outcomes for children (Belsky et al., 1995; Belsky & Fearon, 2004; Camara & Resnick, 1988). MPI-Fatherhood MTPV programs that are able to successfully promote and strengthen co-parenting relationships and have the potential to produce substantial benefits for adults, and more importantly children.
INSIDE OUT DAD PROGRAM
Incarceration affects fathers’ ability to form and maintain social bonds with their children. While prisons remove men from families, the effects of incarceration continue well after release from prison. The Inside Out Dad program connects inmate fathers to their families, helping to improve behavior while still incarcerated and to break the cycle of recidivism by developing pro-fathering attitudes, knowledge, and skills, along with strategies to prepare fathers for release. Incarcerated fathers get the tools they need to become more involved, responsible, and committed in the lives of their children -- providing increased motivation for them to get out and stay out.
THE MISSION THREE E's PROGRAM
Informational program that Educate, Empower, and Equip students, educators and the community about how to prevent human trafficking.
The Mission Project is also incorporating educating families’ and our community about Human trafficking which is a global problem and one of the world's most shameful crimes, affecting the lives of millions of people around the world and robbing them of their dignity. Traffickers deceive women, men and children from all corners of the world and force them into exploitative situations every day. While the best-known form of human trafficking is for the purpose of sexual activity act exploitation, hundreds of thousands of victims are trafficked for the purposes of forced labor, domestic servitude, child begging or the removal of their organs.
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